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If injury is suspected to be deliberate, claimant does not have option to go to Appeal Commission to challenge denial of injury claim

If an auto injury claim in Manitoba is denied on the basis that the damage was caused by a deliberate or willful act, a claimant does not have the option to have the Automobile Injury Compensation Appeal Commission (AICAC) review the decision, the Manitoba Appeal Court has found. Paule-Michelle Constantin reported to Manitoba Public Insurance […]

September 30, 2010

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Canadian P&C industry researching the possibility of offering overland flood insurance

Canada’s property and casualty insurance industry is conducting research into the possibility of offering overland flood insurance, which is not currently available, as part of a homeowner’s policy. Panelists at the National Insurance Conference of Canada (NICC) in Montreal noted there is an important distinction between what consumers and insurers define as “flood.” Whereas insurance […]

September 30, 2010

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Current round of Ontario auto reforms not enough to bust out of the reform cycle: defence lawyer

Ontario is entering into yet another optimistic phase of its seemingly perpetual auto insurance reform cycle, but many within the insurance industry appear to want to break out of this cycle and build an altogether new model for auto insurance in the province. “You get initial optimism,” said defence lawyer Lee Samis, principal of Samis […]

September 30, 2010

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Dismantling a truck flatbed for parts is not an ordinary use of a vehicle: arbitrator

The family of a man who was crushed to death while dismantling a truck flatbed for parts is not entitled to benefits because he was not fatally injured in an “ordinary and well-known activity to which automobiles are put,” an Ontario arbitrator has ruled. The parents of the deceased, Floyd Clause, have an auto scrap […]

September 30, 2010

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